Trivia Quotes
53 quotes by 47 authors
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The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested in trivia; he…
— Rajneesh
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Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
— George Will
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Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no…
— Happy Rockefeller
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Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
— Brian Kernighan
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Im always trolling for trivia.
— Lynn Abbey
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The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my…
— James Lovelock
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To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.
— Christopher Langan
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Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you,…
— Dee Hock
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Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects…
— Michael Korda
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One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
— Lynn Abbey
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of…
— Jack Prelutsky
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NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.
— Andy Borowitz
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People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their…
— Scott Berkun
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In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
— Mary Kay Ash
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The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.
— Molly Harper
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Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
— Dee Hock
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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has…
— Max Lerner
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I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an artifact of linear…
— Matt Fraction
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Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In…
— J. Paul Getty
Who Wrote These Trivia Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 53 Trivia Quotes, led by these top contributors: